The 3rd. and the 4th week everything went as planned, every Friday she had chemo and there weren't any problems.
The 5ft. week the blood count were all massed up so, instead of chemo, she had a liquid and a blood transfusion hoping for a rise in white blood cells within the next week.
by the way...
You all probably know that is very easy to get sick during chemo therapy and is very important not to get sick... well, for the first time in 7/8 years I get sick with a thing worst than a normal cold (tonsillitis or something like that) which I passed to my brother, which passed in a few days.
Fortunately mom didn't get it.
The following Friday again...white blood cells didn't increase as hoped so chemo was postponed again; At list liquids weren't needed anymore because the kidneys were working normally.
Chemo was now scheduled once every 3 weeks and since the white blood cells didn't seem willing to increase the doctor decided to force them with a series of injections.
This practice consist in injecting a substance in the muscles which should stimulate the bone marrow to produce more white cells.
Unfortunately those injections cause constant bone pain so mom was unable to move.
Sunday, October 20, 2013
Sunday, October 13, 2013
2nd. week
The second week wasn't as bad..
As every Friday mom went to the hospital for another chemo cycle, she was scare, she had
low blood pressure and tachycardia so the doctors checked for eventual heart problems, fortunately there weren't any.
After an accurate blood examination, the results were disappointing, her immune defenses was weak, so,
because of the scarce antibodies and the high chance to contract infections, the chemo cycle was canceled.
She was kind of happy, at least she wasn't going through that again, but inside she knew this wasn't a good sign.
The doctors gave her a blood transfusion, to help her make more antibodies, then, since her kidneys were collapsing, she also had a liquid transfusion.
She is not allowed to go in crowd places so she stay pretty much home every day.
My dad started taking some kind of medicine too, our house started looking like a medic office or something like that.
The best news of the week was that the CA-125 marker, which identify the presence of cancer by looking at proteins in the blood, classified my mom into the normal range, basically the cure was working.
As every Friday mom went to the hospital for another chemo cycle, she was scare, she had
low blood pressure and tachycardia so the doctors checked for eventual heart problems, fortunately there weren't any.
After an accurate blood examination, the results were disappointing, her immune defenses was weak, so,
because of the scarce antibodies and the high chance to contract infections, the chemo cycle was canceled.
She was kind of happy, at least she wasn't going through that again, but inside she knew this wasn't a good sign.
The doctors gave her a blood transfusion, to help her make more antibodies, then, since her kidneys were collapsing, she also had a liquid transfusion.
She is not allowed to go in crowd places so she stay pretty much home every day.
My dad started taking some kind of medicine too, our house started looking like a medic office or something like that.
The best news of the week was that the CA-125 marker, which identify the presence of cancer by looking at proteins in the blood, classified my mom into the normal range, basically the cure was working.
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